Thousands of activists from all over the world plan to walk towards the Egyptian border crossing Rafah with the Palestinian enclave, within the Global Gaza March, demanding the entry of humanitarian aid to blocked territory, Transfers Alaser.
However, Egyptian officials were calculated with international participants who are planned to join the march, by straining them at the airport in Cairo and hotels in Egyptian capital for interrogation, and arresting and deporting dozens of them.
The Egyptian official said for the Associated Press that the authorities have deported more than 34 activists, most of whom had European passports, on their arrival at Cairo Airport in the past two days.
The official, who spoke anonymously because he was not authorized to report the media, said that deported activists intended to travel to Northern Sinai “No required approvals”.
Testing activists from the USA, Australia and France
The Reuters news agency reported that at least 73 foreign nationals were deported on Thursday, the flight for Istanbul, and another was waiting for the deportation at the airport.
Saif Abukeshek, Global Marsh spokesman for Gaza, told the AFP news agency that more than 200 activists were detained at the airport in Cairo or examined in hotels in the city.
Among the detainees are US citizens, Australia, the Netherlands, France, Spain, Algeria and Morocco.
He said for AFP that the police officers went to hotels in Cairo with lists with names lists, examined by activists, searching their things in some cases.
“After the interrogation, some were arrested, and others were released,” he said, adding that some were deported after being detained at the airport.
The group of Greek activists wrote that dozens of their members were detained at the airport in Cairo “although they had all legal travel documents, they did not violate any laws and followed every legal procedure in entering the country.”
The organizers of the march in the statement said that they followed the guidelines set by the Egyptian government, and that they would continue with the march towards the plan.
“We look forward to providing Egyptian authorities to provide any additional information necessary to ensure that March continues peacefully according to the plan to the border with Rafah”, states in the statement.
Abukeshek told AFP that the group still plans to continue the march to the border with Gaz.
‘Moral pressure’ to abolish the blockade
The participants of the march plan to travel by bus to the city of El Arish on the Sinai Peninsula before it overpass about 50 kilometers to the border with Gaz. They intend to join the convoy of activists who left Tunisia on Monday, traveling the mainland to support the action.
The organizers say that their goal is to “create international moral and media pressure” to open a border crossing in Rafah and lift the Gaza’s help, which the United Nations described as “the most clue place on Earth”.
In March, Israel imposed a complete blockade in March, as part of the war against Gaza, in which he had killed more than 55,000 Palestinians.
The Global Gaza March is the second attempt to pierce the siege of Gaza this month, after the ship Madleen tried to arrive through the Palestinian territory by sea with a ship.
The ship, where the Swedish activist Greta Thunberg, the French MP in the European Parliament of Rome Hassan and Japan Jazeere Mubashera Omar Faiad, Israeli forces seized on Monday while traveling through international waters.
Egypt condemned the restrictions on gauze assistance and says that his side of the Rafah border crossing remains open, but that Palestinian was blocked by Israel.
Cairo warned that only those with approval will be able to travel the planned route of the march.
“Egypt has the right to take all necessary measures to preserve its national security, including regulation of individuals and movements of individuals within their territory, especially in sensitive border areas,” Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Israel, whose diplomatic relations with the Cairo is a sensitive issue in Egypt, called on the Egyptian authorities to prevent March from reaching the border.
Israel Katz Israeli Katz Defense, on Wednesday, called “jihadist protesters,”, saying that their presence on the border “would jeopardize the safety of Israeli soldiers and that it would not be allowed,” Alaser’s transmitted.
(Vijesti.ba)
